I recognized the lower slopes of some magnificent rocks carpeted by the finest zoophyte specimens, and right off, I was struck by an effect unique to this medium. 我看出这是海底岩石前沿好看的一列，石上满铺着最美丽的形形色色的植虫动物；我首先就被这种特有的景色怔住。

　　By then it was ten o'clock in the morning.  这时是早晨十点。

　　The sun's rays hit the surface of the waves at a fairly oblique angle, decomposing by refraction as though passing through a prism;  太阳光在相当倾斜的角度下，投射在水波面上，光线由于曲折作用，像通过三梭镜一样被分解，

　　and when this light came in contact with flowers, rocks, buds, seashells, and polyps, the edges of these objects were shaded with all seven hues of the solar spectrum.  海底的花、石、植物、介壳、珊瑚类动物，一接触被分解的光线，在边缘上显现出太阳分光的七种不同颜色。

　　This riot of rainbow tints was a wonder, a feast for the eyes: a genuine kaleidoscope of red, green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue;  这种所有浓淡颜色的错综交结，真正是一架红、橙、黄、绿、青、蓝、紫的彩色缤纷的万花筒，

　　in short, the whole palette of a color-happy painter!  总之，它就是十分讲究的水彩画家的一整套颜色！

　　If only I had been able to share with Conseil the intense sensations rising in my brain, competing with him in exclamations of wonderment!  看来实在是神奇，实在是眼福！我怎样才能把我心中所有的新奇感觉告诉康塞尔呢！怎样才能跟他一齐发出赞叹呢！

　　If only I had known, like Captain Nemo and his companion, how to exchange thoughts by means of prearranged signals!  我怎样才能跟尼摩船长和他的同伴一样，利用一种约定的记号来传达我的思想呢！

　　So, for lack of anything better, I talked to myself: I declaimed inside this copper box that topped my head, spending more air on empty words than was perhaps advisable. 因为没有更好的办法，所以我只好自己对自己说话，在套着自己脑袋的铜盒子里面大声叫喊；虽然我知道，说这些空话消耗的空气恐怕比预定的要多些。